You have to love the media. They play this up like it was a major retreat and manage to get in uncorroborated claims of civillian deaths with a statement that civi deaths have hindered American plans in Afghanistan.
This by the same media that would portray a withdrawl from Afghan or Iraq as a major defeat for America, while at the same time aiding and abetting that cause.
They play this up like it was a major retreat
No, they made it sound as if the troops just started running, each man for himself, as if they were protesting being there.
It was meant to deceive any reader who was just reading headlines to "stay informed" on current events with the express purpose of making it seem as if we are failing.
I bet the author of the title (I'll call him Wormwood) was taken out to lunch by his superior (I'll call him Uncle Screwtape) for a "job well done".